There is still another type which develops because of some conspicuously noble or fine quality which proves attractive.  Hero worship, this, which enlarges one’s self through the admiration given to another.  Then there is the friendship based on a purely personal attraction, with mutual respect and self-respect as its dedicated corner-stone.  This does not mean that one cannot see any faults in the friend, or know that one’s own are seen, without losing affection.  There is always something flimsy and insecure about a friendship that simply idealizes.  Any relation should be all the stronger for a frank acknowledgment of its imperfections.  If a girl cares enough she will be willing to admit her own faults and wish to make herself more worthy to be a friend.

And, finally, there is what might be called the lend-a-hand friendship,—­the relation that springs into existence because of the need which is seen in another.  It is not fair to make a packhorse of one’s friend or to turn one’s self into the leaning variety of plant, but it is fair and wise and right, if one is strong enough to accomplish the end in view, to lend a hand to another girl who is not making the best of herself.

Have a good time but do not swear eternal allegiance in this first year to anybody, however wonderful she may seem.  Hold yourself in reserve, if for no other reason, then on account of the old friends at home, whether they be kin or no-kin, for they have been true.  And remember, as I have said before, friendship is like scholarship and must by its nature come slowly.

IV

THE STUDENT’S ROOM

There has been a general improvement in student rooms, yet many rooms to-day have altogether too much in them:  too many pictures, too many banners, too much furniture, too many hangings.  The great fault of most rooms is this overcrowding.  If we were only heroic enough to make a bonfire of nine-tenths of all they contain we should see suddenly revealed possibilities for something like the ideal room.

One serious and obvious objection to the overcrowding of rooms is the hygienic.  I am tempted to say that this is the most important objection:  indeed, since health is more important than wealth, I will say so.  A girl has neither the time nor the ability to keep so many articles in a room clean:  and while she is busy attending to her studies, some cherished ornaments are not only laying up dust for the future, as a more regenerate life will lay up treasures, but also breeding germs, perhaps collecting the very germs which will take this girl away from school or college.  Besides, bric-a-brac not only gathers dust and breeds germs but also wearies the nerves.  It makes one tired to see so many things about, and tired to be held responsible for them.  Without realizing it, we resist the amount of space they occupy and in their place want the air and sunshine.  Subconsciously,